lions and tigers and bears, oh my ...

[welshTerrier2]

think like a radical ... think about extreme change ... think about catastrophe so great, so huge in scale, that both radical and immediate changes are required to prevent it ...

think about the food chain ... destroyed ... think about our own food supply ... destroyed ... think about no heating and no cooling and no comfort ... think about no transportation ... think about no civil authority able to cope with the scope ...

the changes we need go way beyond the two party system ... they go way beyond the current paradigm of free markets ... they go way beyond our little economic and political systems ... we take our sustained existence on the planet a little bit too for granted ... i'm sorry to tell you but we're all "off warranty" ...

what's all this about? it's about "inconvenient truths" ... it's about catastrophe ... not catastrophe in a hundred years when we're long since gone from this planet ... not in 50 or 60 years ... we're talking today and tomorrow and the day after that ... the whole world is dying and yet we continue about our business as usual ...

we may need to stop driving our cars NOW ... we may need to demand that the nation's food supplies be brought much closer to where they are consumed ... the oceans are running out of fish and the fish that remain are mostly toxic ... we certainly need to stop burning fossil fuels ... we don't have another 20 or 30 years to find alternatives ... the glaciers are collapsing into the seas ... and though we set our alarm clocks to go about our daily routines, we remain unalarmed ... we wake up, get out of bed, drag a comb across our heads and yet we never seem to really wake up at all ...

from an old Jackson Browne song:

Oh people, look around you
The signs are everywhere
You've left it for somebody other than you
To be the one to care
You're lost inside your houses
There's no time to find you now
Your walls are burning and your towers are turning
I'm going to leave you here and try to get down to the sea somehow

i think we need to start demanding of our representatives and party leaders that they start calling for radical changes before it becomes too late to make them ... there is no room left to speak of what is politically viable ... changes are needed immediately; there is no Plan B ...

source: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0720-08.htm

Earth Faces 'Catastrophic Loss of Species'

Life on earth is facing a major crisis with thousands of species threatened with imminent extinction - a global emergency demanding urgent action. This is the view of 19 of the world's most eminent biodiversity specialists, who have called on governments to establish a political framework to save the planet.

The planet is losing species faster than at any time since 65 million years ago, when the earth was hit by an enormous asteroid that wiped out thousands of animals and plants, including the dinosaurs. Scientists estimate that the current rate at which species are becoming extinct is between 100 and 1,000 times greater than the normal "background" extinction rate - and say this is all due to human activity.

The call for action comes from some of the most distinguished scientists in the field, such as Georgina Mace of the UK Institute of Zoology; Peter Raven, the head of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St Louis, and Robert Watson, chief scientist at the World Bank. "For the sake of the planet, the biodiversity science community had to create a way to get organised, to co-ordinate its work across disciplines and together, with one clear voice, advise governments on steps to halt the potentially catastrophic loss of species already occurring," Dr Watson said. <skip>

There have been five previous mass extinctions in the 3.5 billion-year history of life on earth. All are believed to have been caused by major geophysical events that halted photosynthesis, such as an asteroid collision or the mass eruption of supervolcanoes. The present "sixth wave" of extinction began with the migration of modern humans out of Africa about 100,000 years ago. It accelerated with the invention of agriculture 10,000 years ago and began to worsen with the development of industry in the 18th century. <skip>

"Biodiversity is much more than counting species. It's crucial to the functioning of the planet and the loss of species is extremely serious," Dr Larigauderie said. "Everywhere we look, we are losing the fabric of life. It's a major crisis."

[The Wizard]

1. Is this anything like

Rummy, The Dummy, and Dick, oh my?

[undergroundpanther]

2. For me..

I know the Earth is dying.Everything is contaminated. People resist change if they cannot see ahead and people are not taught to see ahead unless it's looking at some leaders ass and waiting to be told what to do.

The leaders of the world wanted to be like gods ruling over a kingdom of creative innovative docile slaves ,free enough to invent,but trapped enough to do as they were commanded,curious enough to invent,but not curious enough to meddle in the affairs of their bossses..aall in a perfect hierarchical order under their sole domination,be they visible or not so visible,they wanted to be the tyrants. Over time these"conquerers they set up a false hierarchal social system ,talked about bettering lives,hard work ect.ect.and sold humanity a boatload of lies as they put us all in cages in our minds ,in our hearts,our lives became managed..our beliefs shaped.Reality got mixed up with fantasy..And we learned to like the cage we grown up in,than we grew to depend upon it and tell ourselves we needed it .


What would we DO without a military?(the founders of America fought the revolution without a military they banded together) What would we DO without police(we would band together and take the bullies out who refuse to live and let live in a community) it would be lawless! Aaaahh. We grew cowardly and immoral ourselves when we let daddy state handle conflicts,we let daddy police state dictate who was a threat to our own well being.We let mommy state good cop throw us scraps of power make it better after daddy state bad cop wounded us,and we were about to say no more of this.We contented ourselves with scraps of material things and forgot the big picture.. We lost our own way when we began to stop choosing how to live our own lives,and look out for each other's well being.

WE got off on controlling our kids,controlling nature,controlling each other, rather than letting you be you me be me,them be them,we gave up on free cooperation and sharing,and decided to live as those before us did.We compete,we hoard,we become little islands,until the sea dries up,and we are stranded.

When we throw more effort and time into doing the same old things and nothing changes.WE are an insane species. We have become like the leaders that lead us to hell with their good and bad intentions .We are trapped in THEIR nightmare/dream, So we die.We put our bodies on the front lines,we poor expendable lower classes,the leaders will avoid facing the fallout from their ambitions,until WE make them face it by force,they won't .Now the Earth that has made the utopian dreams of "great society" possible,due to the shortsighted selfishness and self-preservation Machiavellian psychopathic 'morality' of 'leaders' we all will collapse and die along with The Earth.

I just hope the end is swift and the pain not severe and that somehow we are freed from this evil trap.Never trust a leader to lead you,for his self interest and self preservation instincts will always make him untrustable.

The few wealthiest of swine may hide underground a few generations and begin 'civilization' again as a 'cargo cult' with the few survivors who are too young to remember to not trust sociopaths to make your decisions for you.. A few of these rich pigs may jettison their chosen few into space,hoping to resettle to abuse and devour another planet,but I just hope their rockets explode as they flee killing all aboard for they murdered and robbed the entire world and broke humanity and rode us like mules for Their own benefits alone,their profit games and gambling schemes. They have no right to get away from paying for what they have done with us,with it.